Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package optipng  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-OPTIPNG-658350
  • published24 Nov 2017
  • disclosed24 Nov 2017

Introduced: 24 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-16938  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream optipng package and not the optipng package as distributed by Ubuntu.

A global buffer overflow in OptiPNG 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service attack or other unspecified impact with a maliciously crafted GIF format file, related to an uncontrolled loop in the LZWReadByte function of the gifread.c file.